Release 2.5

[smehringer]

Checklist

Preparation #2470

• Freeze master/develop
• Bump develop version to 2.5.0
• Make sure that app versions are greater than the last packages on http://packages.seqan.de (set as SEQAN_APP_VERSION in each app's CMakeLists.txt)
• Make sure the changelog is up-to-date

Build Packages / tarballs

• Prepare library source tarballs
• Prepare binary tarballs for each app -- Linux (The Team)
• Prepare binary tarballs for each app -- macOS (The Team)
• Prepare binary tarballs for each app -- FreeBSD (The Team)
• Prepare binary tarballs for each app -- Win32/Win64 (The Team)

Tag the Release

• Tag the release
• Publish the release on GitHub

Update Resources

• Upload tarballs to packages.seqan.de and update
• Build dox for docs.seqan.de
• Build manual for the seqan.readthedocs.org
• Tag KNIME builds on Jenkins for permanent versioning (The Team)

Post-release Version Changes

• Bump SEQAN_VERSION macros to reflect the next release (include/seqan/version.h)
• Bump app versions so that they reflect the next release / being in development
• Update seqan and app versions in the resource.txt file on the server in Tübingen
• Unfreeze master/develop

Announcements

• Write a release announcement for https://www.seqan.de
• Send announcement to seqan-dev at lists.fu-berlin.de
• Announce via seqan_lib Twitter account

Update upstream packages

• macports
• homebrew
• debian
• fedora
• gentoo
• ubuntu
• openBSD
• freeBSD

[marehr]

What I noticed is that cmake 3.8 isn't working with seqan.

What I needed to change in stellar was the way to find python:

--------------------------- test/cli/CMakeLists.txt ---------------------------
index 26bb7f4d0..ae2145b41 100644
@@ -5,19 +5,19 @@ add_custom_target (cli_test ALL)
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Setup SeqAn 2 Tests
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 find_path (SEQAN_APP_TEST_PYTHON_LIB_DIR NAMES seqan/app_tests.py HINTS "${STELLAR_ROOT_DIR}/lib/seqan/util/py_lib/")
 macro (seqan_add_app_test APP_NAME)
-    find_package (Python3)
-    if (Python3_Interpreter_FOUND)
+    find_package (PythonInterp 3)
+    if (PYTHONINTERP_FOUND)
       add_test (NAME app_test_${APP_NAME}${ARGV1}
                 COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env
                             PYTHONPATH=${SEQAN_APP_TEST_PYTHON_LIB_DIR} # make seqan/app_tests.py available
-                        ${Python3_EXECUTABLE}
+                        ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}
                         ${STELLAR_ROOT_DIR}/test/cli/run_tests${ARGV1}.py
                         ${STELLAR_ROOT_DIR} ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
-    endif (Python3_Interpreter_FOUND)
+    endif (PYTHONINTERP_FOUND)
 endmacro (seqan_add_app_test APP_NAME)

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/FindPython3.html is only available since cmake 3.12